Cryptic patterning of avian skin confers a developmental facility for loss of neck feathering.
Vertebrate skin is characterized by its patterned array of appendages, whether feathers, hairs, or scales. In avian skin the distribution of feathers occurs on two distinct spatial levels. Grouping of feathers within discrete tracts, with bare skin lying between the tracts, is termed the macropatter...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011
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